Comments on: IDEA #53 – Everyone Gets Sick

By: aaa

aaa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:54:14 +0000

Have you seen this:
http://www.google.org/flutrends/
Thanks

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:53:36 +0000

Hey, look what Lifehacker dug up I just checked my area... there's someone with a tummy ache, conveniently right next to the cemetery (if things take a drastic turn), and someone downtown that has every symptom known to man (poor thing).

By: swissajr

swissajr — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:13:51 +0000

here i go, my 50 cents:

i’m realy up to this idea..
whoiissick.org could’ve made it way better..

and the 100% targeting is a very very nice idea by technocrat! (and as i’m already into b2b sites for european pharmaceutical companies, i already have the contacts to those ppl, it’s a smal step for me)

i think it could be interesting for the average joe – just to see how a flu floats from one continent-2-another/one region-2-another.
for the pharmaceutical industry for advertisement.
for school&parents..
for researches (companies, students … and so on)

make it simple, make it safe and graphically niiiice! (i have a dream about a flu map animation kinda like the weather maps )

anybody interested in takin this idea live? as i said, i’m from europe, i could manage/promote the european flu-o-meter…

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:52:46 +0000

check out http://www.WhoIsSick.com a site that was just launched on this premise. drill down to see enough data, as sometimes it can be hard to tell.

By: The Technocrat

The Technocrat — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:54:51 +0000

or allow schools to embed it in their own sites as a value-add?

By: WhoIsSick Guy

WhoIsSick Guy — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:29:26 +0000

What a great thread. I’m actually the founder of WhoIsSick and I actually have plans to incorporate much of what is being written about. We are still small so have WAY to much to work on but great posts! Come check out our site http://www.whoissick.org and give me some feedback!

By: Thad

Thad — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:45:25 +0000

Hmmm…. I came across this story too on frontpage of http://www.venturebeat.com. I am no health buff but what intrigues me about this site is that it is user driven and not a traditional web 2.0 mashup. Mashups are usually driven by data from elsewhere, and this site has innovative way of seeking user input.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:33:08 +0000

I think the biggest market for this sort of service would be parenting sites (which could syndicate content) … every parent wants to know if, say, the stomach flu is going around their kid’s elementary school.

By: IdeaTagger

IdeaTagger — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:06:11 +0000

Interestingly this post came up in my pageflakes page right alongside this one from VentureBeat about whoissick.org:
http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/13/who-is-sick-tracks-regional-sickness/

By: James D Kirk

James D Kirk — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:07:34 +0000

Was waiting for the twitter tie in Surprised you didn’t incorporate it into your idea, Steve!

I’ll have to take exception to one of the status settings that swissajr recommends “fatal flu”. Not sure how or when that status would go up! Otherwise, I think that a twitter feed into a “twitter vision” type of map would be a very interesting thing.

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